FAITH

It was on the eve of the great 1938 New England hurricane that
a man living in the Stamford, Connecticut suburbs decided to
fulfill a long-standing desire. He walked two miles to the
Abercrombie and Fitch department store in downtown Stamford
and bought a fine barometer. Delighted with his acquisition, he
hurried home and proudly hung it on his living room wall. But
what he saw made him very angry: the barometer reading indi-
cated “Hurricane!” Convinced that he had been sold a defective
instrument, he walked back to Abercrombie and Fitch, handed
the barometer to the sales clerk, and snorted, “Fine barometer
you sold me. I put it up in my house and what do you suppose
it registered? “Hurricane!” To which the sales clerk replied, “No
problem, sir. We’ll replace it with a perfect one.” Again, the man
headed for home with his new barometer. When he arrived, he
discovered that his house had been blown away by a hurricane!
God is reliable, trustworthy, perfect and unchanging. If you
should try to second-guess God or exchange God or replace
God or improve upon God, you are courting disaster.